Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
COLOBIUM (κολόβος). - It is a long, tight tunic without sleeves. It is worn by the Saviour on the cross, as, for example, in the now almost destroyed painting in the cemetery of S. Valentino on the Flaminia (7th cent.);
(photo: Anderson) COLOBIUM – Crucifixion with Christ wearing the c. Fresco (c. mid-8th century) – Rome, church of S. Maria Antiqua.In the painting in S. Maria Antiqua, at the latest from the year 741; in the oratory of John VII in S. Peter’s in the Vatican (705–707), as learned from a copy by G. Grimaldi, in the underground of SS. John and Paul.
BIBL.: Wilpert, Pitture, p. 82.
Enrico Josi
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“COLOBIUM (ΚΟΛΌΒΟΣ).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 1160. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/colobium-kolobos.
